I think even calling that a ‘bumper’ would be charitable. It’s just body cladding at that point.

Well, that was Giugiaro! So maybe he did some uh, borrowing from his mates at Cambiano...

This. I thought that immediately once I heard the statement:

You would really expect something different from a manufacturer that calls this ‘service mode’?

Seems like a bad business model to me, like if the local grocery store was only open when people want to work there. An actual product should be available at predictable and reliable times, not just on the whims of the workforce.

Between the ads, the slideshows, and the increasingly hostile commentariat, I wouldn’t mind never coming back here again. Alas, Stockholm (Gothenburg?) Syndrome.

of course the Transit has no relation to the Crafter, that would be preposterous.

True, but I don’t think I want to maintain either of those in 20 years.

That’s good to know, looks like Kroger has a pretty well fleshed-out system going.

the ever looming threat of Jalopnik disappearing

It’s an issue of these jobs not paying enough, not the side “hustle” not amounting to minimum wage

Supermarkets deliver now.

The problem is they fill a genuine hole in the market for those who are elderly, disabled, or otherwise unable to leave their house. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the idea of food delivery, tons of places have done it for decades. The problem is the way these app services are structured to fuck over the…

But I do know most of the gig jobs billed themselves as a “pick up some extra cash during down time” type employment.

Chrysler has a CEO? Who does what, exactly? Sells Voyagers to Hertz? Is she only part-time or something? No hate to Christine at all, but I can’t think of a single brand except maybe Lancia that has less going on.

Probably fuel economy? The EPA puts the 3.3L turbo at 25 combined which is insane for that big of an engine in a heavy CUV. My 2012 XC70's 3.0L turbo I6 gets 17 mpg on a good day. With any luck it’ll be super long-lived too making such low figures on a ‘large’ displacement.

While this was true, I think they focused too hard on dynamics and forgot all the other reasons people buy BMWs like the European cachet, the ‘premium’ interiors (at least moreso than Cadillac), and the fact that even BMW’s lower-spec cars used to drive really well too. The V cars were great but couldn’t change the…

However, we know BMW is Mazda’s target, and that’s still a stretch. We bought a used BMW X1 and notice that the driving dynamics and quality of the lowest end BMW was still superior to a Mazda.

Those Avalons are a seriously underrated used buy. You can (or could, pre-pandemic) grab one around $6k with 100k miles and it’d be perfectly maintained with that torquey unkillable V6. I had a friend who ran one as his college beater and it never gave him any trouble. Sold it on last year for something newer and…

Tell me the last time you saw anyone under 50 driving one of these cars?